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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Topsy turvy
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Togas descending a staircase
Damaged goods
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The innocent hippopotamus
Falsely accused
More accurate title: mistress begs husband to leave horrid wife
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Only men can see this one
They grow up so fast
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sorry PETA
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Act spontaneous!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
